A photo and a video of a melanistic black leopard cub spotted at the Yala National Park is being shared widely on social media since last Friday(March 24). According to records, a black leopard has been spotted in Yala after about 50 years.
Many battles were fought during the long war between the Sri Lankan armed forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Among these was the five-day battle fought at Ananthapuram in the Mullaitheevu District from March 31 to April 4, 2009.
With the emergence of armed rebellion in the 70s to carve out a separate state in the North and East for ethnic Tamils, the Police in the course of their duties had to face armed attacks carried out by the armed groups.
Habarana, a biodiversity hotspot and a sensitive environment for elephants and other fauna and flora, has been chosen as the location for an event titled ‘Deep Jungle Fest’ and scheduled to be held from February 17-20....
The much-awaited and anticipated Local Government (LG) election in Sri Lanka, is slated to be held soon despite the speculations that the election could either be delayed or called off due to an array of reasons including lack of funds. In fact, the people of Sri Lanka have been desperately expecting an election as they lost confidence in the Gotabaya-led government, which was initially granted a mandate until 2024 in 2019.
It is undoubtedly true that Sri Lanka, once a model for developing countries like Singapore, is facing its worst economic calamity since its independence in 1948. In fact, there are a plethora of reasons that could be attributed to the creation and exacerbation of the present crisis such as myopic decisions and economic mismanagement by successive governments
“On the ill-fated day of 21st of April 2019, this island home was awoken rudely to witness one of its most tragic events in the annuls of its history and in a series of bomb explosions that sent the nation.....
Following the electricity tariff hike revision in August 2022, the Power and Energy Ministry announced another tariff hike that would have come into effect from January 1, 2023 on the basis that the tariff hike....